Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After this he continues as follows: “They speak, in the\r\nnext place, of a deluge, and of a monstrous<a id=\"r656\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f656\"><sup>[656]</sup></a> ark, having within\r\nit all things, and of a dove and a crow<a id=\"r657\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f657\"><sup>[657]</sup></a> as messengers, falsifying\r\nand recklessly altering<a id=\"r658\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f658\"><sup>[658]</sup></a> the story of Deucalion; not expecting,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_207\">207</span>I suppose, that these things would come to light, but\r\nimagining that they were inventing stories merely for young\r\nchildren.” Now in these remarks observe the hostility—so\r\nunbecoming a philosopher—displayed by this man towards this\r\nvery ancient Jewish narrative. For, not being able to say anything\r\nagainst the history of the deluge, and not perceiving what\r\nhe might have urged against the ark and its dimensions,—viz.\r\nthat, according to the general opinion, which accepted the\r\nstatements that it was three hundred cubits in length, and fifty\r\nin breadth, and thirty in height, it was impossible to maintain\r\nthat it contained [all] the animals that were upon the earth,\r\nfourteen specimens of every clean and four of every unclean\r\nbeast,—he merely termed it “monstrous, containing all things\r\nwithin it.” Now wherein was its “monstrous” character, seeing\r\nit is related to have been a hundred years in building, and to\r\nhave had the three hundred cubits of its length and the fifty of\r\nits breadth contracted, until the thirty cubits of its height terminated\r\nin a top one cubit long and one cubit broad? Why\r\nshould we not rather admire a structure which resembled an\r\nextensive city, if its measurements be taken to mean what they\r\nare capable of meaning,<a id=\"r659\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f659\"><sup>[659]</sup></a> so that it was nine myriads of cubits\r\nlong in the base, and two thousand five hundred in breadth?\r\nAnd why should we not admire the design evinced in having\r\nit so compactly built, and rendered capable of sustaining a\r\ntempest which caused a deluge? For it was not daubed with\r\npitch, or any material of that kind, but was securely coated\r\nwith bitumen. And is it not a subject of admiration, that by\r\nthe providential arrangement of God, the elements of all the\r\nraces were brought into it, that the earth might receive again\r\nthe seeds of all living things, while God made use of a most\r\nrighteous man to be the progenitor of those who were to be\r\nborn after the deluge?</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XLI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-262"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b777dc0372de922e1be7de0f6d2a1f7169f278879c2c49051e00acec2aeb91ab","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f657","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f657","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f657\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r657\">657</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">κορώνη.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f657","text_sha256":"c17b209ae71d9be5f2564b1f150d1fec299f13d75bf9cfa0c2f9b3aa8ccfb7d9","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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